Open AccessLexical restrictions and pronoun distribution
Author(s) -
Brita Lǿnstrap
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.13.1.211-218
Subject(s) - pronoun , linguistics , reflexive pronoun , subject pronoun , class (philosophy) , word (group theory) , object pronoun , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , part of speech , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy
“In the last analysis it is difficult to find a definition valid for all pronouns, though there is much in their often pecuiiar paradigms and usage to justify our setting them up as a separate word class" (Otto Jespersen). One of the peculiarities which serves to "justify" an interpretation of the pronoun (or, in this case, the Russian pronoun) as an independent word class is its completely unique distribution, that is, the syntactic combinations to which it lends itself.